The same old arguments...

The same old arguments...

There's other parts to that story; the 68k had a 16 bit external data bus, where the 8088 had a mere 8 bit bus. This meant that the PC was a cheaper design, since it could reuse long-established 8 bit parts (and, indeed, if you look at the chips used in the IBM Personal Computer 5150 and the IBM System/23 Datamaster 5322 or 5324, you see a lot of overlap).

And, of course, the 32032 was a disaster zone of a chip. On paper, it was reasonable, but once you took the errata lists into account, it was awful, and you were better off with the 68000.